Ruth F. Allen
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Ruth Florence Allen was an American plant pathologist. She increased the understanding of cytology
of rust fungi, which are a chief cause of cereal diseases. These diseases can have a devastating effect on coffee, apple and pine trees.
Allen received a PhD
from the University of Wisconsin in 1909, becoming the first woman to obtain a PhD in the Department of Botany. Over the course of her career she held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State College
, Wellesley College and the US Department of Agriculture.
The American Phytopathological Society
established the Ruth Allen Award in 1965 to honor "individuals who have made an outstanding, innovative research contribution that has changed, or has the potential to change, the direction of research in any field of plant pathology."
Cell biology
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of rust fungi, which are a chief cause of cereal diseases. These diseases can have a devastating effect on coffee, apple and pine trees.
Allen received a PhD
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from the University of Wisconsin in 1909, becoming the first woman to obtain a PhD in the Department of Botany. Over the course of her career she held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State College
Michigan State University
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, Wellesley College and the US Department of Agriculture.
The American Phytopathological Society
American Phytopathological Society
The American Phytopathological Society is an international scientific organization devoted to the study of plant diseases. APS promotes the advancement of modern concepts in the science of plant pathology and in plant health management in agricultural, urban and forest settings...
established the Ruth Allen Award in 1965 to honor "individuals who have made an outstanding, innovative research contribution that has changed, or has the potential to change, the direction of research in any field of plant pathology."